Agent based Modeling: Why Bother

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Agent based Modeling Why Bother?
Thursday Workshop Panel and Discussion Interna
tional SD Conference Boston, Massachusetts,
USA July 17-21, 2005
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Workshop Agenda

• AB Overview and SD vs AB Comparisons (20 minutes)
• Andrei Borshchev CEO XJ Tek, AnyLogic Developer
• Reflections on Combining AB and SD (10 minutes)
• Nate Osgood, Computer Scientist, MIT
• Health Systems Simulation Teaching and Consulting
  (3 min)
• Geoff McDonnell, UNSW
• Experiences of Younger Academic Researchers (6
  min)
• Sara Metcalf, U of I Geography
• Hazhir Rahmandad MIT Sloan School
• Real World Consulting Experiences (10 min)
• Mark Paich, Decisio Consulting
• Mark Heffernan, Evans Peck
• Chris Johnson, GE Research
• Open and Panel Discussion (40 min)

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Each Presenters Brief

• What are you using AB for?
• Why are you using it?
• Brief reflections on combining DE with AB
• The good
• The bad
• The future

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Eric Beinhockers The Origin of Wealth in the
Growth and Sustainability Plenary Tues PM

• What SD can learn from Complexity Science
• Understand the importance of individual agent
  heterogeneity
• Novelty creation through adaptive and
  evolutionary processes
• Macro impact of network structures

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Geoff McDonnellHealth Systems Simulation

• Multimethod and multi-level
• Where are the outliers, the vital few?
• E.g. SARS in Toronto
• Epistemology
• Induction, Deduction, Abduction (Pierce)
• Science Theory Development KIDS
• and Engineering Problem Solving KISS

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http//www.complexityscience.org/NoE/epistemoloyo
fmodelling.pdf(sic)
Source Contributions to the epistemology of
modelling Leonhard Meirer1, Manfred Paier1,
Andreas Resetarits1, Harald Schuster2, Julia
Zink3 with contributions of John L. Casti4 and
Johannes Lenhard5 http//www.complexityscience.org
/NoE/epistemoloyofmodelling.pdf